Analytics Business Partner

Role overview

Partner with manufacturing and fabrication leaders to turn operational questions into trusted metrics, analysis, and practical recommendations. You’ll learn how the business area works, investigate changes in performance, and own its analytics roadmap and reporting. The role combines consultative work with hands-on analytics development, in close coordination with analytics and data platform specialists.

Responsibilities

- Work with leaders to frame business questions, assess available data, and challenge assumptions when a different question would be more useful. - Investigate KPI changes, identify likely causes, and explain findings with clear recommendations. - Prioritize analytics work by business value; decide what to build, retire, or handle without a dashboard. - Define KPIs with subject matter experts, document their logic, and align metrics with the governed data layer. - Trace data quality issues across source systems and coordinate fixes with system owners and data teams. - Build, validate, and maintain analytics using BI and AI tools; support operating reviews, planning, recurring reporting, and user adoption.

Requirements

- At least five years in BI, analytics, or data-driven operations, with examples of analysis that influenced business decisions. - Deep knowledge of the business area supported, ideally from embedded work with a similar team. - Ability to investigate a questionable metric, test hypotheses, and explain the result to nontechnical audiences. - Hands-on Tableau and AI tool experience, with examples of how they improved analysis or delivery. - Strong SQL and experience reconciling data and definitions across source systems with their subject matter experts. - A relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to have

- Familiarity with Snowflake and dbt, or ability to learn them quickly. - Experience with Infor SyteLine or CloudSuite Industrial production data and manufacturing measures such as OEE, throughput, scrap, or labor efficiency. - Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma certification, or exposure to fabrication, welding, or CNC operations.

Benefits and work setup

Fully remote within the United States, with travel to facilities of up to 20% possible. Benefits are described as comprehensive and competitive.